Skeptophilia

In my Critical Thinking classes, I did a unit on statistics and data, and how you tell if a measurement is worth paying attention to.  One o...

When I put on water for tea, something peculiar happens. Of course, it happens for everyone, but a lot of people probably don't think ab...

I know I've snarked before about the how unbearably goofy the old 1960s television show Lost in Space  was, but I have to admit that eve...

Springboarding off yesterday's post, about a discovery of fossils that seem to have come from animals killed the day the Chicxulub Meteo...

I have a sneaking suspicion that the physicists are on the threshold of a paradigm-breaking discovery. The weird data have been building u...

In my Critical Thinking classes, I did a unit on statistics and data, and how you tell if a measurement is worth paying attention to.  One o...

If I had to pick the most paradigm-changing discovery of the twentieth century, a strong contender would be the discovery of red shift by a...

Last week, I did a post about dark matter and dark energy -- and how those could potentially drive a reworking of what we know about physics...